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August 27, 2012

The L.A. Show Low Down (Or: "Having Barely Escaped My Trip Into Town And Now It's Sunday...")

by Brad Roberts

The Echo Park Rising festival on Saturday (August 25th) looked, from my vantage point, to be a wild success. I heard so much great music under so many pleasant circumstances that I will be posting a review later in the week. Sitting in the backyard concert space of Sancho Gallery on Sunset Blvd, I was transfixed by the beauty of the setting, so I snapped this picture at right, and as it typifies the feeling of the day, here it is. This week's festival is the FYF Festdowntown at L.A. State Historic Park which takes place next Saturday and Sunday and features the wonderful Beirut, as well as Refused, The Faint, and a whole host of nearly 100 bands from all over. We at Radio Free Silver Lake will be around to cover it.

Politics. How will we ever last till November. Grab the popcorn and get ready to see the parade of American neanderthals that begins in Tampa on Monday Tuesday. Mitt-wit and his wife, Angry Ann, 'Pugsley' Ryan and a host of brilliant keynote speakers like Donald Trump and his dead ferret, Ayn Rand Paul, and token minority-bait Marco Rubio will practice evasion, dodging and obfuscation in introducing the party platform, along with their attempts to arm every fetus with a gun. Now we get to watch this fractured party try to present a united front to America. And now a hurricane is threatening the gulf coast again, metaphorically taking the wind out of the sails of the whole charade.

Well the Saturday FYF Fest probably has left a lot of people pretty wrung out, so let's get ready to do it again today! Beirut(at left) and The Faint are tonight's headliners after a busy day filled with the likes of Yeasayer, Dinosaur Jr and Allah-Lasbringing the festivities to a high-toned climax. This takes care of most of this summer's festivals. All I see is The Eagle Rock Music Festival on the horizon the first Saturday in October.

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